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A LIFE’S WORK IN PROGRESS

I've never really liked labels: I am this, I am that... But in the interest of introducing myself to the world, I can say that I am many things: nurse, writer, photographer, poet, painter, gardener, friend, armchair philosopher, counselor, nature lover, real-estate aficionado, movie buff, sometime yogi, and aspiring world-traveler. I think that's a pretty good list, for now. I want to become a bigger part of the vital, creative force I feel deeply at work in the world and connect with other people who want to do the same.

A man in plain clothes got out of a similarly plain-looking car, and asked for me by name. I said yes, I was Jacqlyn Thorne. He handed me two pieces of paper stapled together and said I was being served. The breeze almost blew the papers out of my hands as I stared at them. They had spelled my name wrong, I thought. That was what I noticed…

Poems rooted in darkness, and poems reaching toward the light; poems filled with spirit, and poems that pierce the heart: All can be found here in the author’s first-ever published collection of works.